@ziadacat wrote:
I'm going to block him. I going to tell him I can't find them - actually this wouldn't be far from the truth - honestly it happens to me a few times a year, there's a couple of items I can't find right now as we speak - items stored in wrong containers etc.
While I understand your concern about this buyer, doing this will get you an automatic defect. If your seller rating can handle it, then it's the easiest thing to do. But I would also report the buyer to eBay and see if you can get anywhere with that. Provide whatever information you've found about this buyer. It may even help in getting the defect removed eventually.
Of course, you have two other choices:
1) Cancel, but use the "Buyer and I disagreed over terms" (i.e. tracking) or "Other", and see if you manage to avoid the defect that way;
2) Pay for the tracking yourself (with signature confirmation) and catch him at his own game. You'll only be doing other sellers a favour by possibly removing a problem buyer, and you won't get a defect, but you'll be out a few dollars to avoid the defect.
In the end, it really depends on how important it is to you to avoid a defect.
